Threshold (1981 film)
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Director Richard Pearce Country Canada | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Sci-Fi Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1981 Cast (Donald Sutherland), (Dr. Aldo Gehring), (Carol Severance), (Tilla Vrain), (Edgar Fine), Michael Lerner (Henry De Vici)Awards Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Similar movies Blood Work , Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , Alice in Wonderland , Crank: High Voltage , The Wizard of Oz , Sudden Impact | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Threshold is a 1981 drama/science fiction film from Canada, directed by Richard Pearce. It starred Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum. The film was nominated for eight Genie Awards in 1983 and won three of them. Sutherland also won best actor at the 1982 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for his performance.Filmed on location at the then newly constructed Ottawa General Hospital.
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Plot
Respected cardiac surgeon Dr. Thomas Vrain performs a risky operation to provide a patient with the first artificial heart ever implanted in a human subject.
He and his colleague, research scientist Dr. Aldo Gehring, consider the risks and weigh the odds as time runs out for Carol Severance, the patient. Severance will die unless the experimental surgery is done quickly and succeeds.
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